Operation Eyesight Canada
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119068955RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,819,370) as filed with the CRA.
Operation Eyesight Canada is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.2M in revenue and $7.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 73 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 38 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.1M in 2020 to $9.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Operation eyesight is an international development organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness in vulnerable communities in south asia and africa. Our country offices are located in india ghana kenya and zambia. We also have programs in nepal bangladesh liberia malawi and ethiopia that are managed by our india ghana and kenya teams. Operation eyesight addresses the root causes of avoidable blindness and advocates for the integration of eye care into primary health care systems. Our model of hospital-based community eye health empowers communities to take ownership over thei…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.2M | $7.8M | $5.2M | $2M | — | $7M |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $7.1M | $4.7M | $1.5M | — | $5.6M |
| 2022 | $7M | $6.6M | $4.7M | $1.5M | — | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $4.8M | $3.4M | $993K | $0 | $7M |
| 2020 | $6.1M | $5.7M | $4.5M | $1M | — | $6.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 73 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$165K
- Canadahelps Canadon$136K
- Canadahelps Canadon$136K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- The Rotary Club of Norfolk Sunrise Fund$72K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$71K
- BenefAction Foundation$70K
- The Victoria Foundation$52K
- Canada Gives$48K
- Seacliff Foundation$40K
- The Lawrason Foundation$30K
- LRDR Foundation$25K
- Gulu Thadani Foundation$25K
- The DR. Charles and Margaret Brown Foundation$25K
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$5,600
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,589
- The P & P Murray Foundation$5,000
- The Ansari-Cook Foundation$5,000
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Jack Brown & Family Alzheimer Research Foundation Society$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,316
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions38
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ray Mowling (director); Dan Parlow (director); Shaad Oosman (chair); Diane Isabelle (director); Kashinath Bhoosnurmath (president/ceo); Gaurav Wadhawan (director); Byron Sonberg (director); Adeyinka Onikan (director); David McInnis (director); Ivan Zenar (director); Khushboo Jha (director); Sajda Shroff (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Operation Eyesight Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119068955RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.